The Land of Magellan
Author | : William Singer Barclay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Falkland Islands |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William Singer Barclay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Falkland Islands |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Laurence Bergreen |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0061865885 |
“A first-rate historical page turner.” —New York Times Book Review The acclaimed and bestselling account of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage. Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning biographer and journalist Laurence Bergreen entwines a variety of candid, firsthand accounts, bringing to life this groundbreaking and majestic tale of discovery that changed both the way explorers would henceforth navigate the oceans and history itself. Now updated to include a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of Magellan’s voyage.
Author | : Antonio Pigafetta |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802093701 |
The First Voyage around the World is also a remarkably accurate ethnographic and geographical account of the circumnavigation, and one that has earned its reputation among modern historiographers and students of the early contacts between Europe and the East Indies.
Author | : Joyce E. Chaplin |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2013-11-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1416596208 |
Originally published in hardcover in 2012.
Author | : Susan Meyer |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2016-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1499438044 |
Although Magellan led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe, he perished before the trip was completed. Readers will learn about the challenges that his expedition faced on its long, arduous journey, as well as how this Portuguese explorer ended up leading a Spanish expedition in the first place. Other highlights include his travels as a young man, the discovery of the strait now named after him, and his partnership with astronomer Rui Falerio. This engrossing account of Magellan’s life and fateful last voyage concludes with a consideration of Magellan’s legacy.
Author | : Stefan Zweig |
Publisher | : Pushkin Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2011-09-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1908968087 |
The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521) is one of the most famous navigators in history – he was the first man to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, and led the first voyage to circumnavigate the globe, although he was killed en route in a battle in the Philippines. In this biography, Zweig brings to life the Age of Discovery by telling the tale of one of the era’s most daring adventurers. In typically flowing and elegant prose he takes us on a fascinating journey of discovery ourselves.
Author | : Antonio Pigafetta |
Publisher | : Prentice Hall |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Milton Meltzer |
Publisher | : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780761412380 |
What must it have been like to be the first to circumnavigate the globe or traverse America from shore to shore? What political, social and financial factors of the day encouraged exploration? What personal dreams and desires drove these fearless men to search the vast unknown waters and lands, to tempt danger time and time again, all in the name of discovery? In Great Explorations, acclaimed authors including recent Laura Ingalls Wilder Award winner Milton Meltzer guide us through the adventures of the indomitable explorers who knew first-hand the joys and sorrows of pioneering.
Author | : William Singer Barclay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Rockwell Kent |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Limited editions |
ISBN | : |
This work by Kent is an absorbing account of a trip that he made in a small sail boat along the bleak coasts of Tierra del Fuego to Cape Horn in the 1920s. Kent called Tierra del Fuego "the worst frontier in the world" and the characters that inhabited this land "the very dregs of humankind".